Tracking State Data Protection Enforcement In 2014 - McDermott Will & Emery

Tracking State Data Protection Enforcement In 2014

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A. Marisa Chun, David Gacioch, Kate Hammond, Marcos Jimenez, Manoj Khandekar, Robert Kline, Amy Pimentel, Heather Egan Sussman and Han Yu wrote this bylined article assessing the growth of state e-privacy and data protection efforts. “While the federal government continued its inaction on data security bills pending in Congress in 2014, some U.S. states were busy at work on this issue, with several state legislatures introducing bills and laws that underscored the ever-growing importance of privacy and data security to the broader U.S. economy,” the authors wrote.